The diagnostic tool gathers configuration information about a computer/server/environment, packages this information in a .cab file, and sends it to Microsoft using the Upload_Results.exe application. If the computer you run the diagnostic on is not connected...

SharePoint logging and troubleshooting using ULSViewer In helping with troubleshooting SharePoint issues we can make use of the SharePoint Unified Logging System; or in short: ULS logs. ULS logs can provide in-depth information about the problem to a...

You might want to start or stop a task when a particular event is logged. For instance start a service or stop tracing. You can use the the Attach a Task To the Log option in the Event Viewer The Attach a Task if found here For example Therefore...

In some scenarios the Workflow Analyzer doesn't work as expected. The following article will demonstrate how you can execute the Workflow Analyzer manually. In the first part is described how you can trace a workflow with Workflow Analyzer itself, while...

Here as an example to analyze is the workflow of the Windows Server 2008 Logical Disk Free Space monitor: Start the Workflow Analyzer: and the Health Service you want to run it on: And select the workflow to analyze: You can start analyze...

As you can see in above picture in the TraceWorkflow windows, the WF analyzer put an override for the workflow on that instance. That one is downloaded here: And looks like this: < ManagementPack xmlns:xsd ="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"...

With the following steps you can run the Workflow Analyzer manually. Create override for the TraceEnabled Based on the WorkflowOverrideMP above, you can create an override for a specific object: This will give all instance for this class: In this scenario...

When troubleshooting the OpsMgr agent, you may see recommendations to “clear the cache”. This is found here And explained in the following TechNet article How and When to Clear the Cache http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212884.aspx However...

The Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) contains the Windows Performance Recorder (WPR) to capture detailed system and application behavior and resource usage to help engineers to analyze performance using WPA. Here is how to install and use WPR. To install...

HealthService Availability Reports for Distributed Applications might be incorrect due to duplicate entries in the HealthServiceOutage table. When the availability reports for the distributed applications are incorrect and are showing UP(Monitoring...

This article is a step by step tutorial how to deploy the SCOM 2012 Audit Collection Service (ACS). The deployment has 3 parts: How to Install an ACS Collector and Database How to Enable ACS Forwarders How to Deploy ACS Reporting Audit Collection...